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Hi guys and Gals… and MERRY XMAS!!!
I brought this one up before, but it seems to be an ongoing thing…
I Installed RH 8 …. AGAIN… and as I was finishing up the install and going through up2date, I realized – too late of course – that the kernel was being updated to 2.4.19 instead of 2.4.18 [ If I am not mistaken ] … Then I thought, shoot, There goes the one about using my Geforce 4 again… THEN, I just ran the nvchooser app from nvidia’s website, and followed the result: Install the src.rpm for the nvidia kernel and the GLX i386 rpm for the OpenGL libs…Well it DID NOT WORK, and I get all sorts of errors when trying to rpmbuild –rebuild the src.rpm package... And using the source from the tarball is not gonna make it better I suspect… I am not sure why it won’t work exactly… Would appreciate any input though…
Anyway, I then thought “ well let’s just reverse to the last known kernel version for which nvidia has a driver, and then we’ll update the kernel only when the corresponding drivers are available… Turns out I get error message when trying to install an older kernel package by rpm, and I have no idea how to force the system to revert back to whichever version of the kernel I want to use…
So, if anybody has any input either on the src.rpm packages for the Nvidia drivers or on the reverting back to a previous kernel version, I would really appreciate…
Thanks
Alex - Al3X - Réné
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